The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-08
John sherman's Slogan.

Mr. John Sherman has given forth |
rs slogan as G candidate for the Repub-
lean nomination for the Presidency. |
That was the intent of his speech at
springfield, the capitol of Illinois, the
'ther day. His text was "The Princi-
pies and Tendencies of the two Great
Political Parties" Like Old Mortality,
be went among the graves, and revived,
to the best of his capacity, sectional
and waved the bloody
shirt. He even called the Democratic
party "the Confederate party" to re-
kindle the animosities of his Northern
and INDUCED in the sectional
slang which belongs to a past decade.
Here is specimen:
'There is not an intelligent man in this
broad land Of either party who does not
know Mr.. Cleveland is now President of
the United States by virtue Of crimes
against the elective franchise, including
murder, arson, ballot-box stuffing, forgery
and perjury, hat for which James G.
Blaine would now be in his place"
Ii we remember Alright, soon after
Mr.. Blaine's defeat he accounted for it
in almost similar language in harangue
to his followers from his own door-sill.
1t is an old Story, and TO sensible peo-
pie, stale and threadbare. 1t will ex-
cite no emotion, unless derision, among
the intelligent people of either race in
the South. If there is one section, more
than any other, where the negro. reposes
in peace and protection, under his own
vine and fig tree, and votes as he pleases,
it is in the South. The uproar which
carpet-bag rule caused in the late slave
States, has been succeeded by a remark
able calm. The Grape of the Ballot
which disgraces the American name and
stands out "a conspicuous monument of
infamy, was the Presidential fraud by
which Republican was installed into
the Presidency, whom the people by the
decisive majority of two hundred and
fifty thousand, had rejected at the polls
John Sherman was one of the chief con
spirators. The subsequent election riots
and frauds in his own State, and under
the management of his own party, were
crimes of lesser magnitude, but far ex
ceeding in enormitY any offence which
can be truthfully alleged against the
Democratic party in any part of tn,
country.
The balance of Mr.. Sherman's speecl
was a repetition of the familiar plat
tudes of the Republican orators.
Appropos to the foregoing, we viii
extract the following comments of tn,
able Washington correspondent of thu
Picdyune on some of Mr.. Sherman
wild utterances:
Among other things, Mr.. Sherman
after denying his desire to perpetual
bad feeling, goes on the accuse tn
President of having given a majority 0
the important missions and consulship
to ex-confederates. A grosser falsehooC
was never uttered. A decided maiorit,
OF the missions are given to northern
men of union antecedents.
There are four leading missions will
a salary of $17, 800 each-namely: Lon
don, Berlin, st. Petersburg and Paris
The first three are held by Messrs
Phelps, Pendleton and Lothrop, al
northern Democrats, and the fourth
Paris, by a Democratic unionist, Mr.
McLane, of Maryland.
| Southern men represent the country
at Madrid, Vienna, Berne and Athens
but these are inferior positions as re
spects salary and influence.
Northern Democrats hold the Turkish
Italian, Belgian, Chinese and other mis-
sions.
In the matter of consulships, the
three great prizes-namely London
Liverpool and Paris-have all been cor
ferred on northern men and the grea
majority of these places of held by
unionists.
The attempt to parade as proof OF
Confederate sympathies Mr.. Cleveland
vetoes of the little pension steals and Of
the big steal of $50,000,000 per annun
is also viewed with disgust when it is
considered that large number of union
veterans, including many Republicans
demanded the veto, and, further, that
the Republican party, when it held
Congress by two-thirds majority, de-
clined to pass the bill.
1t is believed that the venomo on,
attack ON President Cleveland will dc
him more good than anything that ha.
happened, and goes far to warrant the
belief in Mr.. Cleyeland's remarkable
luck.
Mr.. Sherman is availing himself OF
the principle laid down by him in his
Senate speech of April 5, 1884, when he
declared that Anything that will beat
down the Democratic party and build
up our own is justi6able in morals and
in law"